yeah, calling rome "iron age" is kinda like calling us "industrial era"

Anecdotally i'd say it's probably more like 10%, however i think at this point smoking is so unusual that you REALLY notice if even a single person does it near you, which inflates how high the usage feels.

well you are putting it in your mouth, so you're effectively swallowing parts of it.

it's somewhat nice to not risk fires breaking out, though.

I'll never forget how e-bikes are so fucking powerful that they INSTANTLY completely converted my lifelong driver of a dad.
I managed to convince him to buy an e-bike, and the day he rode that home was the last day he drove a car on a regular basis. Now he says buying a bike was the best thing he ever did, and he LOVES biking to work every day, not to mention that it might well have saved his life since he has diabetes and has had at least 2 silent heart attacks before then.

Funnily enough lower speeds also makes the road fit more cars, so it might actually help congestion slightly.

It works if you just have railways, the finger model is extremely good.

(Finger model means cities like Copenhagen and Stockholm, where you have "fingers" of development stretching away from the "palm" in the middle, with each finger being built around a railway)

it's so fascinating how ancient rome (and presumably comparable cities in the other major civilizations) was in many ways more similar to what we have now, than what came after.

people like driving just for the sake of driving, rather than for the sake of doing something else like going to work or getting groceries.

egrets, i've had a few

astounds me that people still don't make that priority #1

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